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Jay Freedman
 
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Default Formatting after copying from PDF to Word

SBRADLEY wrote:
I have copied a narrow column of text from a PDF document into Word.
It retains the same format when copied so that even though I change
the text size it retains the narrow format, ie only takes up half the
width of the page. Is there anyway to format it so it would appear as
though it had been created in Word, justified etc ?

Thanks in advance


It probably has a paragraph mark or line break at the end of each line. Turn
on nonprinting characters, using the ¶ toggle button. If that's it, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/CleanWebText.htm for the procedure to
remove them.

Otherwise, look at Format Paragraph to see if there are indents.

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Jay Freedman
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